“The days of 70 crore poor people changed in 12 years!” Amit Shah reached Gandhinagar and told about PM Modi’s grand plan.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has made a big claim regarding the development and poverty alleviation of the country. He said in clear words that the central government under the efficient and strong leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought comprehensive and historic changes in the lives of about 70 crore poor people of the country during the last 12 years.

Amit Shah said that basic facilities like permanent housing, 24-hour electricity, clean toilets, pure drinking water, LPG cylinders, free food security (ration) and excellent health services have been provided to the needy living in every corner of the country. He called it the most comprehensive and biggest poverty alleviation campaign in the history of India.

He was speaking at a very important event organized in Gandhinagar, where he grandly launched the ‘PM Family Care Tracker’ (PM-FCT) pilot project and the ‘Health Passport’ scheme. Addressing the public meeting, Amit Shah said that since 2014, the most important and first goal of the Modi government has been to raise the standard of living of the poor people standing at the last rung of the society.

When Amit Shah remembered those old days of UP

During his address, Union Home Minister Amit Shah recalled his old visits to Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal) before the year 2014. He told that at that time he had seen and felt very closely the extreme and terrible poverty there.

He said emotionally, “It is not at all that there was no poverty in our Gujarat, but when I visited the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, I truly realized the real poverty of the country. At that time people did not even have their own permanent houses to hide their heads. When there were no houses, there was no question of electricity reaching there. Countless villages did not even have toilet facilities in their houses. Where there were small huts, there were Also, there was no facility of drinking water inside the house.”

Smoky stove and trust only in God for treatment

Amit Shah further said that at that time the poor mothers and sisters of the country were forced to cook food on traditional wood stoves amidst smoke for hours, which had a very bad effect on their health. Better and modern health services were completely out of reach for most poor families.

The Home Minister said, “Our mothers kept cooking on that smoke-filled stove all their lives. The whole family used to work hard day and night just to arrange two meals for the next day. At that time, the economic condition of the common people was so bad that if someone in the family became seriously ill, people could not see any other option except praying to God instead of getting treatment.”

In just 12 years, Modi government put a permanent end to these challenges.

The Home Minister proudly said that after coming to power, the Modi government at the Center has solved all these old and big challenges from the roots through its various public welfare and historic schemes. He told through statistics that in a short journey of just 12 years, 70 crore poor people of the country have got the right to live with dignity. Today they are being provided pucca houses, free electricity connection, pure water from tap, clean toilets, Ujjwala gas cylinder, five kilograms of free grains per person and absolutely free treatment up to Rs five lakh under the Ayushman scheme.

Putting a big figure before the country, he said that due to the efforts of the government, till now the construction work of a record three crore pucca houses has been completely completed across the country, while one crore more new pucca houses are under construction at a very fast pace, which will soon be handed over to the poor.

This big dream of poor families fulfilled after 5 generations

While sharing the experiences of his interaction with the public, the Home Minister said that many poor beneficiaries of the country themselves told him with great emotion that for the first time in the last five generations of their entire family, such a historic moment has come when they are living with dignity in a luxurious pucca house, where all the basic facilities like gas, toilet, pure drinking water, free grains and electricity 24 hours a day are present together. Shah said smilingly, “Many people told me with utmost respect that for the first time after a long wait of five generations, their family has been blessed with such a luxurious house. Within just 12 years, the Modi government has made the unfulfilled dream of five generations come true.”

What is the new ‘PM Family Care Tracker’ and ‘Health Passport’ plan?

In the final phase of his speech, Home Minister Amit Shah spoke openly on the importance of the new schemes launched today. He made it clear that ‘PM Family Care Tracker’ is going to become a very important and modern digital medium for the next phase of public welfare and public welfare schemes of the government.

Through this hi-tech system, complete monitoring of providing best health services, essential nutrition and high level education to small children of poor and exploited families at the right time will be done through an integrated central system. Due to this, in the coming time, no poor child of the country will be deprived of basic facilities and health benefits.